Joan Jonas, whose «They Came to Us Without a Word» at the Venice
Biennale last year was seen as a triumph, will bring a version of the work to the Kitchen to open its spring season.
Eliasson (the Danish - Icelandic artist who, in 2003, made a very big sun sculpture for Tate Modern's Turbine Hall in London) introduced the portable solar - powered LED lamp at the Venice Architecture
Biennale last year.
And it says a lot about the cultural versatility of Sharif's art that it looks equally at home in both settings, as it did in the Venice
Biennale last summer.
Rumney also says he is outraged by an inscription on the museum's Grand Canal facade, which he noticed during the Venice
Biennale last year, acknowledging the «Schulhof Collection» next to the words «Peggy Guggenheim Collection».
Author of one of the most commented works in the Venice
Biennale last year — «Hunting Ground» occupied the entire Brazilian pavillion in the 57th edition of the event and won a Special Mention from the International Jury — Cinthia Marcelle opens her first major solo exhibition in the UK this Saturday, March 10th.
«We were immediately drawn to McArthur's work when we saw it at the Venice
Biennale last year,» says Rachel Lehmann.
Titled «Belinda,» it was made in 2013 with Styrofoam, cinder, granite sand, iron and ash and first shown at the Venice
Biennale last year.
Campbell's work - which represented Scotland at the Venice
Biennale last year - is very strong.
For those who saw my works at the Fabrica gallery in Brighton and the Venice
Biennale last year, it won't look entirely the same, but it has been reconfigured to suit the unique requirements of the Djanogly Gallery space.
In similar conceptual manner, Jeremy Shaw and Fiete Stolte (both artists exhibited at the Venice
Biennale last year).
One of them, «S.A.C.R.E.D.» was exhibited at the Venice
Biennale last year.
His work was included in Clandestine at the 50th Venice
Biennale last year.
Interview by Adam Aslan You were one of the artists exhibiting at the Venice
Biennale last year, how was this experience...
For example, Priscila Fernandes who I first met in 2012 and again at the Sao Paulo
Biennale last year and was very interested in her work; she introduced me to her gallery and now we are working together.
Not exact matches
(You may have seen them
last year at the Venice
Biennale — they showed in «All the World's Futures.»)
Yesterday marked the
last day of the 56th international Venice
Biennale, which has reported a total visitor count of 500,875, with 2,899 average visitors per day.
In 2011 Swiss artist Christoph Büchel turned Hauser & Wirth gallery in London into a community center;
last year, for his representation of Iceland at the Venice
Biennale, he transformed a deconsecrated church into a mosque.
Last Friday, Venetian authorities closed Christoph Büchel's functioning mosque in a disused church in the city, the Swiss artist's project for the Icelandic pavilion at the Venice
Biennale, saying that it had did not have the proper permits and was... Read More
From
last year's Venice
Biennale to this summer's New Museum show, more and more exhibitions are spotlighting contemporary art from Iraq Read More
With videos, painting, and a full - scale mockup of a Baghdad living room made entirely of cardboard, ten little - known artists turned the Iraq pavilion into a quirky, surprising hit at
last year's Venice
Biennale.
Vanessa Beecroft, known for naked exhibitionism — the use of nude women in many installations — caused an uproar when she splattered naked African immigrants with red paint during
last year's Venice
Biennale to protest the situation in Darfur.
Comprised of a range of works on paper as well as two large - scale sculptures previously shown at
last year's Venice
Biennale, Moran explores the intersection of American history with that of cultural production — namely jazz and art.
Last Friday, Venetian authorities closed Christoph Büchel's functioning mosque in a disused church in the city, the Swiss artist's project for the Icelandic pavilion at the Venice
Biennale, saying that it had did not have the proper permits and was overcrowded, according to a piece in The New York Times by Randy Kennedy, who has been providing play - by - play coverage of the controversy.
Romania's presentation of Geta Brātescu
last year at the Venice
Biennale felt like a retrospective in miniature.
He is one of the most important young sculptors working today, whose work has been included in the
last two Whitney Biennials; the Lyon
Biennale in 1997; and Sunshine & Noir exhibitions at the Louisiana Museum, Humblebaek; Castello di Rivoli, Italy; and the Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles.
Rat - King was included in
last summer's Venice
Biennale and has recently been acquired by the Emanuel Hoffman Foundation in Basel, Switzerland where it will be permanently installed in 2002.
Actually, just
last Thursday (March 12th), on the 6 train, after having spent a short time at the press conference at the Italian Cultural Institute of the next Venice
Biennale All the World's Futures, I was reading Okwui Enwezor's curatorial statement which began with an epigraph of Walter Benjamin's paragraph, extracted from his famous book, Theses on the Philosophy of History.
The 57th Venice
Biennale released the list of participating artists for its main exhibition today, revealing the 120 artists — compared to
last year's...
The publication captures a snapshot of the evolving art scenes of these communities over the
last half - century, as well as various locations around the world through the gallery's participation in art fairs,
biennales and off - site projects.
The winner of the
last Venice
Biennale's Silver Lion for best young artist — for her mesmeric video Grosse Fatigue, a rhythmically driven fugue of creation myths, anthropological artifacts, and spoken - word poetry — she recently won the first Nam June Paik award, and she's currently up for the Guggenheim's Hugo Boss Prize as well.
Aside from her work at Art Brussels, Ms. Gregos had most recently curated the Belgian Pavilion at the 56th Venice
Biennale and the 5th Thessaloniki Biennial, both
last year.
Last exhibiting at the gallery five years ago, his Rome show coincides with the artist's participation in major international exhibitions, including this year's Venice
Biennale, where he represented Finland together with Erkka Nissinen, and his upcoming solo show at the prestigious New Museum (New York) in February 2018.
Recent solo shows include The Present Moment, Instituto Moreira Salles, Sao Paulo, Brazil; (2017 - 2018); Museo Tamayo, Mexico City (2017); The
Last Resort, Kaldor Public Art Projects, Sydney, Australia (2017); Answer Me, The New Museum (2016); The Present Moment, Instituto Moreira Salles, Rio de Janeiro (2016); Teshima Seawall House, Benesse Art Site Naoshima, Teshima Island, Japan (2016); Haus der Kunst, Munich (2014); the French Pavilion at the 55th Venice
Biennale (2013); the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (2012); The Serpentine Gallery, London (2011); The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati (2009); The Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami (2008); and the Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan (2005); among other venues.
This event was
last held to great acclaim at the 54th Venice
Biennale in 2011... read more about the 2017 edition here...
At the bank
last fall, Mr. Ligon showed his neon text piece titled «A Small Band» and spelling the words «blues, blood, bruise,» which resonated more immediately in a neighborhood struggling with police violence than it might have at its debut in 2015 at the Venice
Biennale.
He's been one to watch ever since he took home prestigious Silver Lion for Most Promising artist at the 2011 Venice
Biennale, but
last year seems to have been the moment the art world really started listening.
Melanie Smith (born Poole, UK, 1965), has lived and worked in Mexico City for the
last 25 years, and represented Mexico at the 54th Venice
Biennale in 2011.
This show comes 20 years after pivotal exhibitions such as Memorias Intimas Marcas — initiated by Fernando Alvim, in collaboration with Gavin Younge and Carlos Garaicoa, which looked at the residue of trauma caused by the Angolan Civil War — and the 2nd and
last Johannesburg
Biennale, curated by Okwui Enwezor, which unusually for the international art world at the time included many artists from the Global South.
It was epitomised by the
last Berlin
Biennale.
Another show that has affected many curators in the
last year and a half was ARTEMPO — a satellite show to the 2007 Venice
biennale — which installed artworks together that ranged radically in age, from zero to over 500 years old.
Since Ritchie exhibited «The Universal Adversary» at Andrea Rosen Gallery in 2006, his work has been included in numerous exhibitions including: the Venice Architecture
Biennale; the Seville
Biennale; the Havana Bienal; «Matthew Ritchie, The Iron City,» St. Louis Art Museum; «Wunderkammern» Museum of Modern Art, New York; «The Guggenheim Collection,» Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain; «Not For Sale» PS1, New York; «Confines,» IVAM, Valencia, Spain; «The Shapes of Space,» Guggenheim Museum, New York; «Between Art and Life,» San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; «The Kaleidoscopic Eye,» Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; «In the Beginning: Artists Respond to Genesis,» Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco; «Experimental Marathon Reykjavik, Reykjavik Art Museum; «The
Last Scattering, Phase Two,» London, «To the Milky Way by Bicycle,» Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Germany; «The Architectural Imaginary in Contemporary Art,» Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego.
The British Pavilion at
last year's Venice
Biennale was described as a cocktail of pleasure and pervery.
Last October, the council declared that it would no longer appoint an external commissioner to choose an artist, a decision it claims to have made to follow new rules for national participants in the
Biennale.
He is shortlisted for his presentation in the Scottish pavilion of
last year's Venice
Biennale in which he screened the 1953 arthouse film by Chris Marker and Alain Resnais, Statues Also Die, which explores African art and its post-colonial commercialisation.
Governed by a circuit board that Mirza coded and implanted in the TV screen, the piece (# 65,000)
lasts seven minutes, and is unexpectedly addicting — the best way to experience work by the artist, who won the Silver Lion at the 2011 Venice
Biennale, since his New Museum show
last year.
The
last stop on the Art Fund supported tour of Jeremy Deller's English Magic; the exhibition he created for the British Pavilion at the 2013 Venice
Biennale.
The Gwangju
Biennale Catalogue — launched
last week at Freize includes Lubaina Himid «s Folk Museum installation.
The 57th Venice
Biennale released the list of participating artists for its main exhibition today, revealing the 120 artists — compared to
last year's 136 — whose...
In 1969, the artist Keith Sonnier was included in Harald Szeemann's «When Attitudes Become Form» a the Kunsthalle Bern, a seminal show — recently restaged by the Prada Foundation during the
last Venice
Biennale — that gathered together work by Joseph Beuys, Walter De Maria, Bruce Nauman, Richard Serra, and other now - legendary figures to survey the vanguard of minimal and conceptual art.
80 years old and cooler than I'll ever be, Jonas
last year presented a triumphant, ecologically imperative exhibition at the American pavilion of the Venice
Biennale.